[92859] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Fulton)
Sun Oct 15 17:56:53 2006
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:44:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Fulton <rich@nullroute.net>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <7CA62FDF-1108-4409-849A-BD63DA8FEBE6@delong.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
and you will NEVER see this service again until there
is a monetary incenctive to offer said service. So..
why is this still a discussion?
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Owen DeLong wrote:
> This may be a nit, but, you will _NEVER_ see AC power at any, let alone all
> of
> the seats. Seat power that works with the iGo system is DC and is not
> conventional 110 AC.
>
> Owen
>
> On Oct 15, 2006, at 3:39 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>>
>>> e-mail from the plane. :) Lack of seat power was not an issue, I just had
>>> two batteries. And this was BOS -> MUC, which ain't a short flight.
>>
>> It's quite likely that on a grander scale of things, it's better economy
>> that the few people who want to use their laptop the whole flight, do get
>> two batteries, than doing the investment of putting AC power in all seats.
>>
>> Otoh, more batteries on planes increases the risk of fire due to exploding
>> batteries happening in the plane :P
>>
>> --
>> Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
>
/rf
